Description: The Society of Actuaries (SOA) Board of Directors (Board) gathered in Savannah, Georgia March 6–7 to discuss key strategies and essential initiatives. Discussions focused on optimizing the candidate pipeline, AI strategy and global growth. The Exam Exemptions Task Force and the Governance Review Task Force provided updates to the Board.

Description: In this interactive presentation, you will learn how people make decisions and how this can lead to errors in judgement and irrational choices.

Description: Plan Sponsor Perspective

Description: Risk Adjustment in IFRS 17

Description: The importance of storytelling in financial communication and its role in conveying complex financial reporting results and insights to diverse stakeholders cannot be denied.

Description: A summary of the SOA Research Institute's participation in the NAIC Spring 2025 National meeting

Description: risq: questions on risk—an inter-college competetion conducted by isac

Description: Please join us for an engaging webcast that will explore investment risk management objectives within an asset/liability framework, with a focus on interest rate and liquidity risk. The discussion will highlight traditional approaches like duration and cash flow matching, as well as introduce the potential for more advanced techniques using moments and linear programming to optimize hedging portfolios. The session will examine the impact of these strategies on portfolio construction and risk/return optimization, comparing and contrasting typical practices in pension and insurance portfolios.

Description: This webcast focuses on a systematic approach to developing others, no matter where they are in their career. Not focused on advice or instruction giving, but facilitating a conversation for the individual to identify their own goals and the best way to go achieve them. The foundational belief is that the answers all lie within the individual.

Description: Heavy calculations are needed for life insurance financial reporting and ALM modeling requirements. Actuaries need to work with IT to weigh in on various approaches like optimized grid-computing set up vs. modeling approximation to deliver the required reserve calculation results on time at a reasonable cost. This webcast will explore the cost benefits of some of the techniques, which helps actuaries in their discussion with their IT counterpart.